Growing up in Gaza, human and economic growth stunted by Israel
From this article about a boy’s hopeless vision of the future
Half the population of Gaza is under the age of 18 Chronic malnutrition affects nearly 10 per cent of under-5s in the Palestinian territories. The situation is most acute in Gaza, where 50,000 children are malnourished In September, health workers in Gaza went on strike after non-payment for months. Storage and transport of vaccines failed, and thousands of children were not immunised In Gaza and West Bank, nearly half of students have seen their school besieged by troops; more than 10 per cent have witnessed the killing of a teacher in school 11 per cent of children in Gaza are stunted and 43 per cent of pregnant women are anaemic Levels of violence and dropping-out have increased in Gazan schools over the past year. School activities have been abandoned owing to lack of funding
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